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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Ukraine led by 'miserable Jews,' says head of the new - proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic

A leading pro-Russian separatist in Ukraine has called the country's leaders "miserable Jews," AFP reported.

In a press conference on Monday that was carried live by Russian news
channel Rossiya-24, Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the new - proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, described the country's
Kiev-based, pro-Western leaders as "miserable representatives of the
great Jewish people"

He added that the prominent nationalists
in the country's past "would turn in their graves if they could see who
is running Ukraine."

"I can't remember a time when Cossacks
were led by people who have never held a sword in their hands,"
Zakharchenko told a press conference in the eastern rebel stronghold of
Donetsk. The Cossacks were the traditional forbearers of today's
Ukrainians.

Zakharchenko also announced a compulsory call-up in the separatist territory, aimed at bolstering its forces to 100,000 troops.

Fighting between Ukrainian forces and the pro-Russian rebels, which has
claimed 5,100 lives since April, has surged in recent weeks after the
collapse of a tenuous ceasefire deal.